Chapter 128: Travel at public expense

For the next month, Pan Yi traveled around the world to talk about transfers with interested players.

Is it hard to say? Actually, it's not hard.

It's just a trip, or a reimbursement with public funds.

Although the official transfer window in Europe will not open until July 1, it does not prevent transfers between teams.

Everyone negotiated and signed the contract, but it was only when it came into effect, in fact, many teams did this.

Pan Yi's work started early, so he was not in such a hurry to do things, even if he was traveling in the mountains and rivers, he would not delay things, and even the efficiency was very high.

Unlike some teams, they have to wait until the last minute when the transfer window closes to rush to operate, and in the end the fax machine does not buy a good one, which makes a mess.

First up is De Bruyne, the number one target.

Pan Yi promised this little Belgian talent a place at the heart of Hamburg, which deeply touched him.

Then it just so happened that De Bruyne was really no one in the Chelsea team at this time, and in the eyes of coach Roberto Di Matteo, he was like a chicken rib - after the poor record this season, he needed more mature men, instant combat power!

So, when Hamburg offered a transfer fee of 12 million euros in good faith, the deal was naturally completed.

Casemiro's negotiations were also going well.

This kind of fringe international who plays in Brazil is honestly a big deal, and it is relatively easy for European clubs to poach people, both clubs and players are willing to do so.

6 million euros is the final transaction price of both parties.

Keylor Navas is even cheaper, having only made one appearance on loan at Levante in La Liga this season, in the final round of the league.

So he's essentially just a La Liga B player, and Hamburg only paid 1 million euros to get this future Real Madrid goalkeeper.

In fact, the biggest difficulties encountered by Pan Yi when carrying out transfer operations were all in the Dragon Kingdom.

The first is Zhang Linpeng.

The reason why Pan Yi chose him is actually a little related to the regrets in his previous life.

This strong defender, at the peak of his prime, everyone said that he could play in the big five European leagues.

With the title of "Zhang Moss", he is not only because of his similar shape and embroidery to Real Madrid, but because of his brave style and strong physical fitness on the field, Zhang Linpeng has become a rare exciting player in the Dragon Country at that time.

Especially Lippi coached the Empress Dowager Changzhou, and Zhang Linpeng, together with Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting and other players, was rated by the Silver Fox as one of the Dragon Country players who can gain a foothold in Europe.

As Zhang Linpeng's performance is getting better and better, he has also attracted the attention of European giants.

In 2015, Inter Milan expressed a willingness to bring in Zhang Linpeng, and even Real Madrid expressed interest in Zhang Linpeng during the same period.

But in the end, Hengtai offered a sky-high price of 8 million euros, which scared off all buyers from Europe.

Subsequently, it is said that Hengtai signed a huge contract renewal contract with an annual salary of more than 10 million yuan with Zhang Linpeng, which completely dispelled Zhang Linpeng's idea of staying abroad.

is considered one of the best players in the Dragon Kingdom, but he missed out on Europe, which is also the biggest regret of Zhang Linpeng Hengtai's career.

And then in this life......

Pan Yi went back to the old way.

Although Zhang Linpeng has not yet secured the main position in the current Hengtai, he also spent 10 million RMB transfer fee from Hengtai at the beginning, and he also regarded him as the core of the future team.

Therefore, when Pan Yi came to the door to ask for the purchase, Hengtai still gave a high price of 7 million euros.

How could Pan Yi spend so much money? That's more expensive than Casemiro.

In addition, Zhang Linpeng's own willingness is not very strong, and this deal can only fall through in the end.

Lose in hake, but gain in herring.

When Pan Yi gave up on Zhang Linpeng and then went to pursue Wu Lei, he had an unexpected gain.

At this time, although Wu Lei is already the top scorer in the Chinese League, he has not proven himself on the highest stage in China after all, so his value will not be particularly outrageous.

And Wu Lei himself has always had an extremely eager enthusiasm for staying abroad - in fact, in Pan Yi's previous life, when Wu Lei joined the Spaniards, he also sacrificed a large part of his economic interests to pursue his dream.

Now that Pan Yi has personally come to invite him, this negotiation has gone relatively smoothly.

After all, Pan Yi and Wu Lei also had a friendship, and now that he is the head coach of Hamburg, he is bound to give Wu Lei more and better guidance, so that he can make greater progress, not just buy a water dispenser for the Dragon Country Market.

This also made Coach Genbao, who discovered and cultivated Wu Lei, nodded.

Under the influence of multiple factors, the club finally reached an agreement with Pan Yi, and Wu Lei joined Hamburg for 2 million euros!

This is already the greatest sincerity that Pan Yi can come up with.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Wu Lei was "the hope of the whole village", Pan Yi would be reluctant to spend so much money to buy a Dragon Country player......

And although the contract has not yet taken effect immediately, this news still detonated the network of the dragon country.

Everyone is excited that this young dragon international dares to step out of the country to take on the challenge!

As a negative example, Changzhou Hengtai and Zhang Linpeng have naturally been subjected to various verbal and written criticisms, which are not listed here.

Pan Yi is buying people here, and Hamburg is also cleaning up redundant personnel.

Pan Yi does not deal with these matters personally, but he gives the club's manager who handles this matter a principle: as long as you want to leave, I will not stay.

As a result, in addition to the two main strikers Guerrero and Piedric mentioned by Chairman Yahoff at the previous meeting, some players who could not play in the team have also submitted transfer applications.

They had long heard that the new head coach of the Dragon Kingdom was ready to make drastic changes to the team, so the players who did not have confidence naturally chose to slip away.

Most of them can't sell for a good price, but bits and pieces can also add some transfer funds to Pan Yi.

For example, Guerrero's transfer to Corinthians is 3.5 million euros, while Torre's move to Kazan Rubin is sold for 3 million euros......

All of them add up to about 10 million.

Coupled with the transfer budget of 25 million euros promised by Yahove, the transfer funds that Pan Yi can use in this summer window are actually 35 million yuan.

The current transferees in Hamburg are as follows:

De Bruyne, 12 million.

Casemiro, 6 million.

Makoto Hasebe, 3 million.

Wu Lei, 2 million.

Vardy, 1 million.

Navas, 1 million.

The total transfer expenditure is exactly 25 million.

In other words, Pan Yi still has 10 million euros of transfer funds in his hands at this time.

After the forward, midfield and goalkeeper positions have been strengthened, this money Pan Yi is of course ready to leave to the backline.

At present, in the Hamburg team, captain Westerman and vice-captain Ogo can both play defenders, in fact, they are also quite reliable.

In particular, Westermann was also selected for the German national team to participate in the 2008 European Championship, and his strength is already quite good.

But it's still not enough.

And the right-back position is not a suitable candidate.

According to Pan Yi's original plan, he was to cultivate Zhang Linpeng after buying it, and see if he could hold up the right corridor of the hamburger.

But now that he doesn't come, Pan Yi can only make another plan.

Pan Yi had a few candidates in mind, but he still decided to take a look at this year's European Cup first to see if there were any cheap and easy-to-use goods that he had missed......

(End of chapter)